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Hey everyone! This is just a quick note to let you all know that the current plot will be ending Sunday night/Monday morning at midnight (EST). All characters will wake up in the morning in their regular beds and everything will have returned to Colligo standards of "normal". The only exception to this will be anyone who was killed in the course of the plot. They will either wake up where they were buried, or return through the library in the event that their body was fully destroyed and therefore incapable of being buried. Obviously, if you want to have your characters post starting at midnight about waking up with their memories returned and whatnot, feel free. No one is going to make you wait until Monday morning to actually post.

As an additional note, Adam Young made a post here about people with reality-warping abilities. In that post, he and Jesse Winchester discussed all of those capable of doing such a thing getting together and deciding, at one time, that everyone in Colligo will remember who they are, etc. That is how we are ending the plot. The actual action itself will simply be handwaved, as there are too many characters in the city who fall under this category to feasibly do a thread. However, if you feel your character might qualify - and obviously we're mostly talking about any who can control/manipulate reality and/or thoughts of those around them - then please have them either respond to that post or let us mods know you'd like them involved. It's really that simple.

Thank you all for making this plot such a success! We will have a new one ready to go soon and, as always, if you have any suggestions for possible upcoming plots, feel free to respond here or contact us.

♥ ♥ ♥
Colligo Mod Squad

Hey guys!

With that little musical interlude over and done with, the Collector has decided to toss out a situation that has the potential for both angst and hilarity. Introducing the Canon Ageswap Plot! Beginning at midnight tonight (EST), Asaph will be influencing certain individuals in the city to swap places with either an younger or older version of themselves that exists within their canon.

Of course, this is entirely voluntary. Not everyone has to be swapped nor will everyone necessarily be able to.

Here are a few guidelines to keep in mind for the plot. ( Cut to spare the flist. )

Also, please note that characters who are changed for this plot will have no knowledge of their time in Colligo. They will wake up wherever they normally sleep, already changed into another version of themselves, and will not know where they are or any of that. It's very similar to bringing in a character, except they won't arrive in the library.

And that's it! If you have any questions/comments/ideas whatsoever, please respond to this post or contact us and, remember, have fun with this!

♥ - The Mod Squad

Hello everyone! At midnight tonight (EST), the bodyswap plot will start. This plot, brought to you not by Asaph but rather by a very bored Q Junior, will begin with a post from the troublemaker responsible. After that, everyone who is affected is welcome to begin posting with their character in the body they've been assigned.

Below the cut, you're going to see the list of pairings. There is also a list of guidelines and reminders. Please make certain to read over them and, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to respond to this post!

Also, as it is so close for time for the plot to begin, we are no longer taking volunteers. If you would still like your character(s) involved, please contact us and we'll see what we can work out.

( The guidelines and pairings! )

If we have accidentally left someone off the list, please let us know ASAP so we can fix it. And, once again, thanks for making Colligo such a smashing success! You guys rock!

♥ ♥ ♥ - The Mods

Hey all!

This is just a note to let everyone know that the plot ended at midnight tonight! We meant to post this sooner but real life got the better of us today, unfortunately. Sorry about that!

Anyway. So yes. The plot ended. For those characters who might not have noticed and went to sleep in the same bed with their 'temporary spouse', they will wake up in their own bed tomorrow morning instead. For those who might notice through some way, shape, or form, feel free to run with it and have them separate sooner rather than later.

We want to thank you all for making this plot the success it has been. We'll have the details of the next upcoming plot posted soon!

~ The Colligo Mods

Okay! So, since the initial post about the upcoming New Years plot has already gotten over 170 comments and therefore is tricky to navigate, we decided to put up another one.

Please respond here if you do not have pairings for your characters so we can get the rest of the folks paired off before the plot starts! We know there are still some out there who either haven't been able to find anyone or who weren't able to get online yesterday to comment, and we don't want to leave anyone out!

Once again, the rules to the plot can be found here and, if you have any questions/comments/suggestions/etc. feel free to contact the mods!

♥ - Colligo Mod Squad

Hey everyone!

The Mods here, with information regarding the Halloween plot! This plot will begin at midnight, Monday night (October 31) going into Tuesday (November 1) and will end at midnight the following Sunday night (November 6) going into Monday (November 7).

• Along with trick-or-treating for the younger crowds (and those who might be taking the younger crowds out), there will also be a costume party on Monday night. This is being thrown by Gabriel, the resident Archangel, at the nightclub The Serpent's Den that he just inherited from AJ Crowley.

• Come midnight anyone who is in costume - whether they are at the party, at home and simply asleep with their costume on, walking down the street, whatever - will turn into their costume for the remainder of the plot. This means they will actually think they are whatever it is they dressed as for Halloween. So if your character is dressed as a pirate, they are going to think, and behave, as though they are a pirate until the plot ends.

• The only exception to this are if your character dressed as some sort of inanimate object. Obviously, if they are dressed as an M&M or a fire hydrant, they won't physically become these things. However, they can and will become animals if they opt to dress as a cat or shark or something.

• If there are characters who opt to dress as bad guys/pschos/monsters/etc., they can feel free to kill, maim, and/or attack as many locals as they'd like. Please make sure you have full player permission before doing the same to any played character, though, and keep in mind if you opt to have your character killed off by someone dressed as Michael Myers, they will stay dead until the plot ends.

• Feel free to have fun with this plot but do keep in mind that no characters will turn back to themselves until it ends.

So! To recap: If your character is in costume at midnight on Halloween, they are going to become that costume. If they die, they're dead until it's over. If they kill people, they'll be killing people until it's over. If you don't want them to become their costume but still want them to participate in the party and various other Halloween-themed events in the city, dress them as something that isn't living. Or feel free to have them out of costume by midnight, when the change occurs. That works too.

Comments? Questions? Professions of undying love? Feel free to respond here or contact us!

Enjoy the event and happy Halloween, everybody!

♥ - The Mods

Hello all! The Mods here with information on the brand new plot we're starting right... well, now, actually. This is one of those plots that will affect everyone in the city so please make sure to read this post carefully and, of course, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Basically? The natives are getting restless. Which means that the locals are getting a little sick of their city getting messed up by all these non-locals. Therefore, over the next few days, the locals are going to start being far less polite, much, much ruder, and those with violent tendencies (such as the criminal sort) will become more prone to violent reactions that seem a little more extreme than really necessary. As far as that last one goes, please have these things happen very sparingly as, again, this is a progressive situation.

Please note that the locals will, however, act perfectly normal toward other locals. This is just a reaction they are all having toward the characters in the city. Also, as stated, this is a gradual thing. So please do not immediately have riots occurring in the streets or people being beaten up by CEOs and locals in law enforcement or anything. Mostly it's just rude reactions and downright unfriendly behaviors all around.

We will update here in a few days with more things that the locals are going to be doing in an effort to get non-locals out of the city. For now, keep it fairly mild but feel free to have characters note that things are different.

And, once again, if you have any questions/comments/ideas/etc. feel free to contact us!

♥ - The Mods

Hello all! The mods here, with a couple quick things.

• First up, as we mentioned earlier, the Christmas In July plot is starting to wind to a close. Over the next few days, the temperatures are going to start rising and the snow is going to melt. The decorations will slowly start being taken down in shops and Christmas music will stop. This is going to happen gradually but all of it will be gone entirely by August 1st.

• It's also time for a new plot! Starting at midnight tonight, characters are going to start changing ages. Whether they get older or younger is up to you. You can even age them up for a bit then age them down for a while, or vice versa. The plot is fairly lax in that regard and, as always, you don't have to participate at all if you'd rather not. However, we do have a few rules to go with whichever option you choose.

( READ! THERE WILL BE A TEST! )

And that's about it! Once again, the plot will start at midnight tonight and will run two, possibly three, weeks depending on player interest. If you have any questions, feel free to respond here or contact us!

♥ - The Mods

Hello all! The mods here with a few quick announcements.

• As the month of June draws to an end, so does the current plot. The Glitch Plot will officially end at midnight tomorrow night (June 30th, heading into July 1st). At that point, all fail!filters/DYAC/mass!texting/etc. will cease and the PDAs will begin to function normally once more.

• At the same time that plot ends, another will begin. We will have more specifics on this tomorrow so keep an eye on your friends' page!

• We wanted to take a second to remind people that the locals, while certainly capable of being 'turned off' if asked the correct questions, are still very much functional people. They aren't wholly incompetent nor are they slow-witted. They actually keep the bulk of the city running and range in personality and employment just like citizens of any other city.

• We have recently changed the added note in the acceptance message that covers the damage done to the city following the Christmas Invasion. There is still damage to be found but there is clear progress being made in the rebuilding process, so feel free to have your characters take note (or not) if you'd like!

And that's about it for now. Once again, we'll be in touch tomorrow with more information regarding the upcoming plot. If you have any questions or comments to the above information or anything else, feel free to respond here or contact us!

Thanks and keep being fantastic!

~ The Colligo Mod Squad

Hello lovelies!

Just a note from the mods real quick to cover a few questions we've been asked regarding a recent gamewide development. Namely, the Collector's decision to bring various places/things/beings from other realities to Colligo.

For the most part, this is meant to signify a shift in the game. Now that the city isn't shut off from the rest of the planet, and exploration is possible even if living outside of the city currently is not, the Collector wants reasons for people to want to stick around too. Which is why he's decided to allow things from home to start popping up. However, we of course don't want things to get completely out of hand, so there are a few guidelines.

( Cut to spare the friends page. Please read! )

As each situation is unique and this is something fairly new that can impact the game in a large way, we ask for the time being that anyone who wants to bring in any item/being/place from home that they please ask us first. You can feel free to respond to this post, if you would like, or you can also contact us via our mod post.

Thanks and if you have any comments or questions, feel free to ask!

~ Jessy, on behalf of the Colligo Mod Squad

Hello all! Just a quick note from the Modly Ones.

As today is Friday the 13th, we couldn't let this superstitious day go by without doing something to the poor sods at Colligo. So! Starting this morning, which means that yes, backdating is allowed (including network and comm posts), everyone in the city is going to be experiencing the worst luck ever. Basically, consider this day a Murphy's Law sort of day. Meaning anything that can go wrong quite likely will and odds are will do so in a very big way.

At midnight going into Saturday (EST), the bad luck streak will end and things will return to Colligo's idea of normal. And, of course, if you have any questions/comments/idea/etc feel free to respond here or the mod contact post. Thanks and keep being awesome!

~ Jessy, on behalf of the Colligo Mod Squad

Hello lovelies! This is just a quick note from us because there seems to be a touch of confusion out there as to what this particular plot we're currently having entails. To clarify:

• This plot is solely up to your discretion. You can opt in as many of your characters as you would like or you can opt to simply sit back and watch the chaos.

• Should you want to include your characters in the madness, you can pick any of our previous plots (minus the invasion ones) we've had in game before. You can even pick more than one, at a time, or one right after the other.

• All rules that applied to each plot will also apply to your character if you use that plot now. For example: If someone is de-aged to a small child, they will not know who anyone is they have met in game as an adult unless they have also met them in their own reality or know of them through some canon puncturing source (if allowed by the character being punctured, obviously). Please refer to the posts in colligo to see the specific rules of each plot as they were introduced to the game.

• The overall Collector's Greatest Hits plot ends at the end of April. However you can choose to have your character go back to normal well before that, if you would like. The end of the plot, in this instance, merely means that all characters still affected by the 'cut off' date will default back to normal at that point.

Hopefully this clears things up but, if you have any questions, feel free to respond here or our handy, dandy mod contact post!

Thanks and keep at it. You guys rock!

♥

Jessy, on behalf of the Colligo Mod Squad

Hello all! It's your favorite mods once more with an update on the developments being made during the month of April. Starting tomorrow, Monday the 11th, the Collector will be allowing characters who have been within the city for some time to update to their most recent canon. A character will wake up in the morning with the memories of what has happened to them during the time that they have been in the city. They won't change physically (so if someone happened to lose a limb or gain a scar during their canon update, they will still have that limb/be scar free in Colligo), but if anything happened that would effect them mentally, this would carry over along with the memories that went along with the change.

To be considerate of individuals who might not have seen new canon on the release date, we ask that you wait at least a week from the original airdate of a new episode to update your character to that canon. If you're planning on canon updating your character, be sure to drop the mods a line, preferrably in the mod inbox, so that we know that their canon point as change, and if possible, make a note of it in their original application. Also, try to be sparing with your canon updates. It gets very confusing for other characters, as well as your own, if you find yourself updating them every week or every other week.

Secondly, starting the 15th, the Collector will be introducing a new plot for the city. Or should I say, plots? Because the time has come, my friends, for the city to experience a reboot of the Collector's Greatest Hits. Any character driven plot that the city has experienced will be available for the new characters to experience. While the city itself will remain the same, free of invasion or alteration, the characters will be open to a variety of different changes as well as potentially experiencing several changes at the same time. Everyone should take the next week to work out what they want their characters to undergo. Some of the potential options are:

• People becoming AU versions of themselves
• People becoming future or past versions of themselves
• Genderswaps
• Powerswaps
• The Soap Opera Plot
• Forced Marriages
• Sex Water
• Forced Honesty

If anyone wants random pairings for a forced marriage or a powerswap, feel free to ask the mods, and we'll pair up anyone that requests. Also, plot amongst yourselves. The upcoming madness offers a lot of options for characters to not only get to know each other better but amusing situations for your characters to meet someone new.

Also, remember, the Collector will be revealing himself soon, so if your science types still want to come across interesting new facts about Colligo in the upcoming weeks, feel free to ask the mods for details.

Until the 28th, my lovelies,
The Colligo Mods

Hello, Darlings. Everyone all settled into their new forced marriages? All the new folks in town enjoying their singleness? Well, good. Because we're changing it up. People are going to wake up in the morning (though you can start posting about it at midnight) with new spouses. New people will now have spouses as well. Some of the older "kids" have been moved up to the adult bracket (Sorry, Lily and James. You're still kids). Basically, the Collector is screwing around some more.

( The New Pairings )

The same rules apply as before. Everyone have fun with this. The plot will end next Saturday night at midnight.

-The Modly Trio

When your characters wake up in the morning, things in Colligo are going to be a little different. And all characters will be waking up, even if they normally don't sleep. That'll probably even be the first clue for some people. They won't necessarily be in their regular flat and they definitely won't be alone. You can, of course, start posting now as if it's morning. We don't expect you to be quiet all night.

Your characters will wake up in the morning with no memory of the night before, in bed with another person. Even characters who don't normally sleep will wake up under the same set of circumstances. There will be another person with them and, for all intents and purposes, the pair have been hitched, Vegas style. All the apartments, save for those with children or minors are now one bedroom. For couples who are now "parents", there will be a second bedroom for their child.

This isn't going to affect characters mentally. They won't necessarily love, or feel anything in particular, toward their new spouse. They're simply stuck together. Their wedding rings, which don't come off, keep them from separating too far, except to go to work, and there are requirements for this "marriage".

The rules and guidelines for this change can be found below:

( Rules and Guidelines )

( Click for the pairings! )

That's all. Don't kill each other and try to get along, though we're not really expecting it in all cases. These pairings were created with a randomizer, and were found to be pretty amusing by the mods. Just try to have fun and enjoy yourselves, and feel free to post questions to the mods below, or contact us through AIM or email. The plot will last two weeks.

The Colligo Mods

Hello guys and gals! So after being asked a few questions in regards to the ins and outs of bringing someone back from the dead following the invasion, we decided to make a post to try and explain things in a bit more detail.

( Click and read! There will be a test! Okay, not really, but still click and read! )

That should just about cover it! If anyone has any questions or wants something clarified, or would like to know something that wasn't covered here, please feel free to ask here or contact us!

~ The Mod Squad

Time for the ninth day of presents from the Collector to your characters.

The characters have found the following gifts in their respective flats:

( gifts )

Check back tomorrow for more gifts!

♥

The Colligo Mods

Okay folks. In three hours time (at midnight EST), the AU plot will officially come to an end. Everyone will turn back to normal. Whether characters remember what happened to them or not is up to you. All we ask is that any characters from the future not remember anything too specific.

Also, don't forget to request items from home for the Present Exchange 2010!! This will be running until December 24, with a game-wide plot (details coming soon) to follow immediately after.

That's it for now. Thank you all for making this game such a success and we'll be posting shortly with the first recipients of presents so keep an eye out!

~ The Colligo Mods

Okay folks, in honour of the upcoming holidays, we're going to do something a little different in Colligo this year.

First up, starting the first week of December and carrying right on through until Christmas Eve, every character in Colligo is going to receive some sort of present. Not just any present, though. In fact, everyone is going to receive something from home! However, to make things interesting, we're going to ask that you reply to this post with at least three items that your character(s) might want from home. It can be anything (aside from a living person, although pets are welcome!), big or small. For those who have duplicates in the game, it can be two of the same item as well. In fact, there are very few guidelines to this one at all. Just think of at least three things your character(s) will want, and reply here with the following form:

<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>ITEMS:</b> • Item goes here • Item goes here • Item goes here

It doesn't matter what order they're in; we're going to randomly pick the item. However this way you don't have to narrow your choice down to just one and we have more to work with as well.

Please note that we will be contacting players privately (either via email or AIM; possibly both) to inform them when their character(s) present has arrived, where they can find it, what it is, etc. This will start on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 and will run until December 24, 2010. We will obviously have to have more than one character affected daily, but may take days off in between depending on how the presents will affect the game as a whole (and how busy the mods are as this is quite a hectic time of year).

Also note that we will be kicking off a rather large plot on, or around, December 25th, so be on the lookout for more information! In the meantime, please reply to this post with the requested information regarding present choices. You have until 12AM EST, Wednesday, December 1st to reply.

~ The Colligo Mod Squad

P.S. Please note that you do not have to participate in the present-giving plot if you'd rather not. This is simply a way for us to reward our players and their characters for all of the awesome activity as of late. It is no way required that you list all of your characters, or even any, if that is your wish.

Hello everyone! This is just a reminder that the zombies are now officially gone. Over the next 24 hours, those who were killed will begin returning. Obviously played characters can be returned whenever you, the player, would like. However the locals will all be fully returned by midnight tomorrow night. They'll return to life as though nothing ever happened.

If you have any questions, feel free to respond here and thank you all so much for your participation in this plot! Another one will be coming very soon, with more information to follow.

~ The Colligo Mods

The zombie plot will be ending at midnight on Saturday, October 23rd. As per the deal Azazel has with God, anyone who was hurt or killed during the plot will be brought back to life. The characters coming back to life will find themselves in the library with no memory of what happened during the time they were dead. The locals killed will simply reappear within the city, acting as though nothing ever happened.

So if you're planning on killing anyone, now is the time to do so. And thank you all for your participation in this plot. It went over better than we could have anticipated!

~ The Colligo Mods

Hello, everyone!

So, as per Azazel's post, we have a new issue in Colligo: zombies. That's right, zombies. But, on the plus side, the honesty plot is over so your characters can lie about how scared shitless they are. So that's something, right?

Right?

Have some Halloween spirit, people. Sure your city is being plagued by the undead... Sure your friends and loved ones might get bitten and infected, causing them to turn into mindless monsters bent on consuming your brains... But at least it's seasonally appropriate.

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( PLEASE READ FOR SOME GUIDELINES AND RULES FOR THE ZOMBIE PLOT! )

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please comment here or contact one of the mods. Additionally, you may use this post as a plotting post to discuss things that may happen with your characters.

-The Modly Trio